The "Taipei People" ** episode, which came out in 1968, has attracted great attention among Chinese people around the world, and has successfully ranked seventh in the top 100 Chinese ** since May Fourth. Because of his special family background and identity background, Bai Xianyong has a special affection for the motherland. In 1911, 18-year-old Bai Chongxi abandoned literature to join the army and quietly joined the student death squad of the Guangxi Northern Expedition. By the time Bai Xianyong was born in 1937, Bai Chongxi was already a pivotal figure. At that time, the Bai family lived in the Bai Mansion in Guilin, Guangxi, and hundreds of people came and went in and out of the house every day, including some high-ranking dignitaries.
Bai Xianyong is the eighth child of General Bai Chongxi. However, Bai Xianyong's constitution was very weak, and when he was six years old, all other children of the same age went to school, and only Bai Xianyong remained at home alone. The old people thought that tuberculosis was "tuberculosis" and would be transmitted to other people, so some people once advised Bai Chongxi to drive Bai Xianyong out of the house quickly, thinking that it didn't matter if one had more or one less. Bai Chongxi decided to let the "old eight" live alone in a house in the mountain behind the Bai Mansion to recuperate with peace of mind. Although Bai Xianyong lived in a palace at a young age, he experienced unimaginable loneliness due to this frightening disease.
For children under the age of ten, every night, watching the front yard with the lights on and the brothers laughing and frolicking is undoubtedly the biggest punishment. These special experiences shaped Bai Xianyong's sensitive, imaginative, and even somewhat introverted temperament and personality, which also influenced his choice of career. Although Bai Xianyong was frail and sickly at an early age, his family was well-off, and he worked hard to study his studies. On the one hand, it is out of love for the words handed down by the ancient sages in order to alleviate the unsatisfactory life of life;On the other hand, studying hard is also the earnest teaching of his father Bai Chongxi to the younger generation. When the Japanese army attacked Guangxi in 1944, seven-year-old Bai Xianyong fled in a hurry with his mother and family members.
When leaving, Bai Xianyong sat in the car and was surprised to find that Guilin, once a beautiful hometown, had become a sea of fire. The train was bumpy all the way, carrying dozens of Bai family members between Chongqing, Shanghai and Nanjing. In the process, the lung disease was miraculously cured. After Bai Xianyong**, he went all out to devote himself to his studies, dabbling in many disciplines such as Chinese language, English, mathematics, physics, etc., and even involved folk popular ** such as "Shushan Swordsman's Record", "Dream of Red Mansions", "The Complete Biography of Yue Fei" and "Xue Rengui's Expedition to the East". He was uninhibited and truly knowledgeable.
In 1948, when the Liberation War entered its final stage, the Chinese People's Liberation Army was unstoppable, and Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT top brass began to think about the way back. At the same time, Pak settled in Hong Kong with his family. After settling there for four years, dozens of members of the family moved to Taiwan. At this time, Bai Xianyong suddenly brightened up and compared himself to Jia Baoyu and Cao Xueqin. When he was young, he was protected by his father and enjoyed all the wealth in the world. As the Kuomintang retreated, Bai Chongxi, the "god of war" who had made the Japanese army fearful, was assigned to an idle post by Chiang Kai-shek, and his family's every move was closely monitored by the spies.
The family is in the middle of the road, and the white mansion is like the Jia Mansion in "Dream of Red Mansions" - the red stripes come and go without worry. After moving to Taiwan, Bai Xianyong studied harder and graduated from Taiwan's Jianguo High School in 1956, when his dream was to build the Three Gorges Dam for his motherland. In 1957, Bai Hsien-yong entered the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University, and later changed to the Department of English Literature. In 1962, Bai Xianyong was preparing to study in the United States, but on the eve of his mother Ma Peizhang died of illness, and his elderly father was crumbling. At the beginning of 1963, Bai Xianyong went to Taipei Songshan Airport and officially embarked on the road to study in the United States. In the cold wind, his father sent Bai Xianyong all the way to the gangway of the plane.
boarded the plane, Bai Xianyong looked out the window and found that his father, who had been resolute all his life and rarely shed tears, was in tears at this time. Three years later, Bai Chongxi died of illness, and Bai Xianyong, who was studying in the United States, failed to catch up with his father for the last time. Soon after Bai Chongxi's death, Bai Xianyong's masterpiece "Taipei People" came out. Since then, he has been out of control on the road of literary creation, and has successively created classic works such as "The Son", "The New Yorker", "Death in Chicago", and "Dream in the Garden". It has been said that Bai Xianyong's works are characterized by the integration of tradition into modernity, and through these words, a dual fusion of reality and history has been realized.
Thanks to his special identity background and life experience, Bai Xianyong's thoughts, emotions and creative ability are in stark contrast to those of his contemporaries. Perhaps it was the long-term overseas wandering that made Bai Xianyong suffer endless pain. Bai Xianyong's heart is for the motherland and he is committed to the inheritance and promotion of traditional Chinese culture. In the summer of 1986, Bai Xianhui returned to the mainland, and many years later, Bai Xianyong embarked on the same journey. Standing in the Bai Mansion in his hometown, he burst into tears, as if in the arms of his mother, and since then, he has devoted himself to promoting Kunqu Opera and traditional Chinese culture, and has written "Father and **" for his father
In 2017, when he returned to his hometown in Guangxi, he was full of emotion when he tasted Guilin rice noodles and expressed his willingness to share his thoughts with his fellow villagers. Bai Xianyong can be called a generation of literary masters, his greatness lies in his heart for the quintessence of the country, and his lifelong commitment to inheriting Chinese culture and revitalizing the Chinese nation. I wish the old gentleman good health and often come home to see, and his beautiful vision will be realized in the near future.